American Political Science Review

Papers
(The median citation count of American Political Science Review is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Notes from the Editors: Research Notes95
Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism89
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification88
In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion-CORRIGENDUM87
Vigilance as a Practice of Postcolonial Freedom78
Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric71
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates58
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet56
Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley – CORRIGENDUM53
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China51
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States49
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior47
Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India46
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis46
In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes46
Replication of “Instrumentally Inclusive: The Political Psychology of Homonationalism” (Turnbull-Dugarte and López Ortega 2024)46
Family Ties, Social Control, and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites45
Notes from the Editors: Advice to Authors45
Structural Responsibility43
Muddying the Waters: How Perceived Foreign Interference Affects Public Opinion on Protest Movements43
Smoke and Mirrors: Strategic Messaging and the Politics of Noncompliance41
Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination39
Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa39
Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–202039
The Effect of Gender on Interruptions at Congressional Hearings37
Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice37
Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability35
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on the Supply of Policy Information in a Liberian Election35
Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative34
Public Perceptions of Minority Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy: A Replication, Validation, and Extension33
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Notes from the Editors: New Tracks at the APSR33
The Impact of Welfare on Intergroup Relations: Caste-Based Social Insurance and Social Integration in India32
Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act32
Can Stakeholders Mobilize Businesses for the Protection of Democracy? Evidence from the U.S. Capitol Insurrection32
Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia32
Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach31
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America30
What Happens When You Can’t Check the Box? Categorization Threat and Public Opinion among Middle Eastern and North African Americans28
Mass Versus Donor Attitudes on the Importance of Supreme Court Nominations28
Litigation for Sale: Private Firms and WTO Dispute Escalation27
“Let Our Ballots Secure What Our Bullets Have Won”: Union Veterans and the Making of Radical Reconstruction27
Statistically Valid Inferences from Privacy-Protected Data27
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Temporary Disenfranchisement: Negative Side Effects of Lowering the Voting Age26
Revolutionary Violence and Counterrevolution26
Performative Violence and the Spectacular Debut of the Atomic Bomb – ADDENDUM25
Exposure to Mass Shootings and Voting Directly on Gun Policy25
Voting for Votes: Opposition Parties’ Legislative Activity and Electoral Outcomes25
Curation Bubbles25
Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings24
White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-19 — CORRIGENDUM24
How Partisan Is Local Election Administration?24
An Incomplete Recognition: An Analysis of Political Science Department Statements after the Murder of George Floyd24
Political Emancipation and Modern Jewish National Identity24
Who Hosts? The Correlates of Hosting the Internally Displaced23
Policy Threat, Partisanship, and the Case of the Affordable Care Act23
Trump and the Shifting Meaning of “Conservative”: Using Activists’ Pairwise Comparisons to Measure Politicians’ Perceived Ideologies23
Elite Cues and Noncompliance23
Publius’ Proleptic Constitution23
Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The “Marxist Paradox”23
Heterogeneous Naturalization Effects of Dual Citizenship Reform in Migrant Destinations: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Europe22
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Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud – CORRIGENDUM21
Press Coverage and Accountability in State Legislatures21
International Sports Events and Repression in Autocracies: Evidence from the 1978 FIFA World Cup21
Affluence and Influence in a Social Democracy21
Democracy, Public Support, and Measurement Uncertainty21
Jean Bodin’s Demonic Constitutionalism: Sovereignty, Natural Law, and Political Theology20
Does Political Representation Increase Participation? Evidence from Party Candidate Lotteries in Mexico20
Competition in Congressional Elections: Money versus Votes20
Immigration, Backlash, and Democracy20
Elite Change without Regime Change: Authoritarian Persistence in Africa and the End of the Cold War20
Black Troops, White Rage, and Political Violence in the Postbellum American South20
The View from the Future: Aurobindo Ghose’s Anticolonial Darwinism20
Anarchy, Scarcity, Nature: Rousseau’s Stag Hunt and the Arctic Walrus Hunt Compared20
The Generalizability of IR Experiments beyond the United States20
Which Markets, Whose Rationality? Markets as Polyvalent Political Devices19
Military Service and Immigrants’ Integration: Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries19
Breaking the Mold: Normative Hybridity as the Key to Contemporary “Non-Western” Political Theorizing19
Internalist and Integrationist Theories of (Global) Justice19
Does Competence Make Citizens Tolerate Undemocratic Behavior?18
Bureaucratic Representation and Gender Mainstreaming in International Organizations: Evidence from the World Bank18
Why We Need Minimum Wages: Pay, Recognition, and Economic Citizenship18
The Representational Consequences of Municipal Civil Service Reform18
A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico18
Notes from the Editors: Post-Publication Critiques18
Government Rhetoric and the Representation of Public Opinion in International Negotiations17
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security – ERRATUM17
Reversion to the Mean, or Their Version of the Dream? Latino Voting in an Age of Populism17
The President Will See Whom Now? Presidential Engagement with Organized Interests17
What Do Americans Want from (Private) Government? Experimental Evidence Demonstrates that Americans Want Workplace Democracy17
Partisan Leaning17
Disappointed Expectations: Downward Mobility and Electoral Change16
Campaign Finance Vouchers Do Not Expand the Diversity of Donors: Evidence from Seattle16
How Partisan Are U.S. Local Elections? Evidence from 2020 Cast Vote Records16
Global Slavery in the Making of States and International Orders16
War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party16
Judicial Specialization and Deference in Asylum Cases on the U.S. Courts of Appeals16
STADL Up! The Spatiotemporal Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model for TSCS Data Analysis16
Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany16
How Does Community Policing Affect Police Attitudes? An Experimental Test and a Theory of Bureaucrat-Citizen Contact16
“Moderates”16
Frederick Douglass’s Political Theory of the Powerless: Natural Rights from Below16
The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001–202215
Autocratic Policy and the Accumulation of Social Capital: The Moscow Housing Renovation Program – CORRIGENDUM15
The Class Ceiling in Politics15
Representation at Risk: Evaluating Levels and Consequences of Violence against Immigrant-Background Politicians15
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The Free Movement of People and the Success of Far-Right Parties: Evidence from Switzerland’s Border Liberalization15
“Keep Your Heads Held High Boys!”: Examining the Relationship between the Proud Boys’ Online Discourse and Offline Activities14
Fairness According to Whom? Divergent Perceptions of Fairness among White and Black Americans and Its Effect on Trade Attitudes14
The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation14
Fathers’ Leave Reduces Sexist Attitudes14
The Marketplace of Ideas and the Agora: Herodotus on the Power of Isegoria14
Searching for Ecoterrorism: The Crucial Case of the Unabomber14
Why Botter: How Pro-Government Bots Fight Opposition in Russia13
What Is Colonialism? The Dual Claims of a Twentieth-Century Political Category13
Repression and Dissent in Moments of Uncertainty: Panel Data Evidence from Zimbabwe13
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The Domestic Sources of International Reputation12
The Slaughter-House Dissents and the Reconstruction of American Liberalism12
Separate but Unequal: Ethnocentrism and Racialization Explain the “Democratic” Peace in Public Opinion12
Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming12
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Nietzsche’s Critique of Power: Mimicry and the Advantage of the Weak12
Movement versus Party: The Electoral Effects of Anti-Far Right Protests in Greece12
Hidden Majoritarianism and Women’s Career Progression in Proportional Representation Systems12
The Politics of Police Data: State Legislative Capacity and the Transparency of State and Substate Agencies12
Saving Migrants’ Basic Human Rights from Sovereign Rule12
BARP: Improving Mister P Using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees — CORRIGENDUM12
Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Liberal Nationalism12
Power Sharing and Authoritarian Stability: How Rebel Regimes Solve the Guardianship Dilemma12
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Why Political Philosophy Should Be Robust12
Why So Little Strategic Voting in India?12
Reframing the Guardianship Dilemma: How the Military’s Dual Disloyalty Options Imperil Dictators12
Fake It ‘Til You Make It: A Natural Experiment to Identify European Politicians’ Benefit from Twitter Bots – CORRIGENDUM12
Measurement That Matches Theory: Theory-Driven Identification in Item Response Theory Models11
The Geography of Racially Polarized Voting: Calibrating Surveys at the District Level11
From “Chinese Colonist” to “Yellow Peril”: Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire11
Race, Democracy, and Public Support for War11
White Americans’ Reactions to Racial Disparities in COVID-1911
The Ambivalence of Alexander Berkman’s Anti-Prison Anarchism11
Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils11
Strategic Reporting: A Formal Model of Biases in Conflict Data11
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White, Male, and Angry: A Reputation-Based Rationale for Backlash10
Moving toward the Median: Compulsory Voting and Political Polarization10
The Effect of Judicial Decisions on Issue Salience and Legal Consciousness in Media Serving the LGBTQ+ Community10
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Durkheim’s Empire: The Concept of Solidarity and Its Colonial Dimension10
From Rents to Welfare: Why Are Some Oil-Rich States Generous to Their People?10
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Don’t Look Back in Anger: Cooperation Despite Conflicting Historical Narratives10
The Apocalypse from Below: The Dangerous Idea of the End of the World, the Politics of the Oppressed, and Anti-Anti-Apocalypticism10
Migration and the Demand for Transnational Justice10
The Right to Hunger Strike9
Explaining Rural Conservatism: Political Consequences of Technological Change in the Great Plains9
Regime Support and Gender Quotas in Autocracies9
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Taking Stock of Solidarity between People of Color: A Mini Meta-Analysis of Five Experiments9
Can Racial Diversity among Judges Affect Sentencing Outcomes?9
Representation and Forest Conservation: Evidence from India’s Scheduled Areas9
Descriptive Representation and Party Building: Evidence from Municipal Governments in Brazil9
Late Homesteading: Native Land Dispossession through Strategic Occupation9
Who Gets Hired? Political Patronage and Bureaucratic Favoritism9
“Outside Lobbying” over the Airwaves: A Randomized Field Experiment on Televised Issue Ads9
Democratic Deepening or Elite Persistence? How Local Elites Adapt to Electoral Reform in Rural India8
Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India8
The Vietnam Draft Lottery and Whites’ Racial Attitudes: Evidence from the General Social Survey8
Can Elections Motivate Responsiveness in a Single-Party Regime? Experimental Evidence from Vietnam8
State Legitimacy and Sector-Level Claim-Making: Evidence from East Jerusalem8
Antidote to Backsliding: Ethnic Politics and Democratic Resilience8
Rebel Motivations and Repression8
Institutional Forbearance as a Mechanism of Democratic Stability8
Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base8
The Distributive Politics of Grants-in-Aid8
Evidence of Caste-Class Discrimination from a Conjoint Analysis of Law Enforcement Officers8
An Insurgent Mood: Lorraine Hansberry on the Politics of Home7
“Filling the Ranks”: Moral Risk and the Ethics of Military Recruitment7
Group Size and Protest Mobilization across Movements and Countermovements7
Leaders but Not Authorities? Gender, Veterans, and Messages about National Security7
Elements of External Validity: Framework, Design, and Analysis7
Democracy and the Epistemic Problems of Political Polarization7
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The Curse of Good Intentions: Why Anticorruption Messaging Can Encourage Bribery7
Rethinking the Coloniality of Race: Blood Purity and the Politics of Periodization7
The American Viewer: Political Consequences of Entertainment Media7
Protocols of Production: The Absent Factories of Digital Capitalism7
Crediting Invisible Work: Congress and the Lawmaking Productivity Metric (LawProM)7
Equality, Reciprocity, or Need? Bolstering Welfare Policy Support for Marginalized Groups with Distributive Fairness7
Canvassing the Gatekeepers: A Field Experiment to Increase Women Voters’ Turnout in Pakistan7
Legacies of Wartime Sexual Violence: Survivors, Psychological Harms, and Mobilization7
Out-Competing Rivals: Armed Group Governance and Civilian Attitudes in Colombia7
The Influence of Partisanship on Assessments of Promise Fulfillment and Accountability7
White Democrats’ Growing Support for Black Politicians in the Era of the “Great Awokening”7
The Train Wrecks of Modernization: Railway Construction and Separatist Mobilization in Europe7
Notes from the Editors7
Reducing Prejudice toward Refugees: Evidence That Social Networks Influence Attitude Change in Uganda7
Measuring and Modeling Neighborhoods7
Conditional Enfranchisement: How Partisanship Determines Support for Noncitizen Voting Rights6
The Tragedy of the Nomenklatura: Career Incentives and Political Radicalism during China’s Great Leap Famine – Expression of Concern6
Politicians’ Theories of Voting Behavior6
The Creative Advance Must Be Defended: Miscegenation, Metaphysics, and Race War in Jan Smuts’s Vision of the League of Nations6
Strategies of Green Industrial Policy: How States Position Firms in Global Supply Chains6
Bribes and Bombs: The Effect of Corruption on Terrorism6
Notes from the Editors6
International Rewards for Gender Equality Reforms in Autocracies6
“Problems of an Other’s Making”: B. R. Ambedkar, Caste, and Majoritarian Domination6
Impartial Administration and Peaceful Agrarian Reform: The Foundations for Democracy in Scandinavia6
Notes from the Editors: Review Transfers6
Greed, Envy, and Admiration: The Distinct Nature of Public Opinion about Redistribution from the Rich6
They’re Still There, He’s All Gone: American Fatalities in Foreign Wars and Right-Wing Radicalization at Home6
Serious Conflicts with Benign Outcomes? The Electoral Consequences of Conflictual Cabinet Terminations6
Activism versus Criticism? The Case for a Distinctive Role for Social Critics6
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The Gendered Impact of Corruption Revelations: Unveiling the Role of Parties and Voters in Mexico6
Armed Violence and Patriarchal Values: A Survey of Young Men in Thailand and Their Military Experiences6
A New Measure of Affective Polarization6
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Domestic Institutions, Geographic Concentration, and Agricultural Liberalization6
State Support for Religion and Government Legitimacy in Christian-Majority Countries6
The Opinion-Mobilizing Effect of Social Protest against Police Violence: Evidence from the 2020 George Floyd Protests – CORRIGENDUM6
Women Also Know Stuff: Challenging the Gender Gap in Political Sophistication6
The Politics of Respectability and Black Americans’ Punitive Attitudes6
Buying a Blind Eye: Campaign Donations, Regulatory Enforcement, and Deforestation5
The Global Resonance of Human Rights: What Google Trends Can Tell Us5
Language, Skin Tone, and Attitudes toward Puerto Rico in the Aftermath of Hurricane Maria5
What Kind of Identity is Partisan Identity? “Social” versus “Political” Partisanship in Divided Democracies5
Policing Insecurity5
How Experiments Help Campaigns Persuade Voters: Evidence from a Large Archive of Campaigns’ Own Experiments5
From Protest to Child-Rearing: How Movement Politics Shape Socialization Priorities5
Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens in Four Democracies5
The Political Consequences of Green Policies: Evidence from Italy—CORRIGENDUM5
Demand and Supply of Criminal Governance: Experimental Evidence from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador5
Voter Outreach Campaigns Can Reduce Affective Polarization among Implementing Political Activists: Evidence from Inside Three Campaigns5
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Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability5
Women Grab Back: Exclusion, Policy Threat, and Women’s Political Ambition5
Race, Responsiveness, and Representation in U.S. Lawmaking5
Development in Decolonization: Walter Rodney, Third World Developmentalism, and “Decolonizing Political Theory”5
Meritocracy as Authoritarian Co-Optation: Political Selection and Upward Mobility in China5
Turnout Turnaround: Ethnic Minority Victories Mobilize White Voters5
Land, Power, and Property Rights: The Political Economy of Land Titling in Sub-Saharan Africa4
Resistance, Law, and the Limits of the Disobedience Framework4
Electoral Responsiveness in Closed Autocracies: Evidence from Petitions in the former German Democratic Republic4
State Violence, Party Formation, and Electoral Accountability: The Political Legacy of the Marikana Massacre4
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